King Kong

1933

US

1h 40min

PG

Directed by: Merian C Cooper, Ernest B Schoedsack

Cast: Fay Wray, Bruce Cabot, Robert Armstrong

A film producer on safari brings back a souvenir monster which terrorises New York in one of the all time great monster movies. Amazingly, the special effects still impress, but the film achieves classic status by successfully transposing the story of beauty and the beast into a Hollywood blockbuster movie.